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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.






2. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






3. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.






4. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.






5. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.






6. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.






7. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.






8. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.






9. The use of symbols in literature to convey meaning.






10. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.






11. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.






12. The main character of a literary work.






13. What a story or play is about.






14. An eight-line unit - which may constitue a stanza; or a section of a poem - as in the octave of a sonnet.






15. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.






16. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.






17. A short saying with a moral.






18. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.






19. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.






20. The dictionary meaning of a word.






21. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.






22. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.






23. A story passed down over generations that is believed to be based on real events and real people.






24. The organizational form of a literary work.






25. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.






26. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.






27. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.






28. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.






29. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.






30. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.






31. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.






32. Refers to a writers use of language - including the use of literary techniques - word choice - and sentence structure - that sets one writer apart from another.






33. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






34. The time and place of a story or play.






35. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.






36. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.






37. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.






38. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.






39. A story passed down over the generations that was once believed to be true.






40. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.






41. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.






42. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.






43. A three-line stanza.






44. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.






45. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.






46. A technique in which words - phrases - or sounds are repeated for emphasis.






47. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.






48. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.






49. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.






50. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.